(Editor’s Note: This story ran during our first year, Oct. 3, 2017, and was written by Shannon Carey.)
Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the …
Judge Grimm was worthy custodian of Jackson-Grimm House
Albert Calhoun Grimm was born of German ancestry on Dec. 30, 1868, in Dauphin County, Penn., north of the state Capitol of Harrisburg. Those were hard times in the largely …
History Center seeks COVID-19 stories
You have a chance to write history, for you surely are living it.
Historians at the East Tennessee History Center want to capture stories about life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Knox …
Remembering Ben Boring’s rolling store
Move over online delivery service and personal shoppers! Today, more than ever, their resources are needed and very much appreciated. But there was a time several years ago that citizens …
The House of Pat
(Editor’s Note: We asked Betty Bean to update a 2013 story that we had somewhat arrogantly titled “Dismantling the House that Pat Built.” It is here: Dismantling Bean, of course, …
The Jackson-Grimm House (1885)
Richard Cardwell Jackson (1809-1892) was born in Knoxville on Sept. 27, 1809, one of the sons of Capt. Joseph Jackson. He married Miss Julia Brazleton, a daughter of Gen. and …
Ijams’ natural delights reflect a family passion
When Harry “HP” Ijams and Alice Yoe Ijams bought 20 wooded acres along the Tennessee River in South Knoxville in 1910, they were thinking in terms of a bird sanctuary …
Postscript to the Battle of Turkey Creek
In 1863, Nancy Serena Galbraith was a 44-year-old widow living on her 4,000-acre farm in the Virtue community. Life was undoubtedly hard for her as she struggled to raise eight …